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This is the most fun I’ve had decorating cookies in a very long time. I’ve been wanting to make example cookies for the alphabet cookie cutter set for a while, but I just couldn’t think of anything creative to do with them. Well, the other day I got the idea to decorate each cookie with something that starts with that letter. I had a few ideas, but was stuck on a lot of the letters. I asked my kids to help me, and they came up with some great ideas. My son even gave me this drawing with his ideas:

So the other day while they were at school, I took all of their ideas and decorated up a storm. It was very fun. What would you ever do with this assortment of cookies? I have no idea. But it was fun anyway.

Ants! I learned something of value doing this cookie. It took me three tries to do the red and white checks. Well, actually three and a half. First, I outlined with white. It looked terrible. So I scraped it off and outlined with red. Still terrible. But before I scraped that one off, I went over the top of it with black outlines to see if that might be the solution. I still wasn’t happy. I called Mike in and asked him what I should do. He suggested mixing red and white to make a pinkish-red color to outline with. So that’s what I did, and it worked great! So file that away in your brain in case you ever have to do red and white checks on a cookie. :)

B is for

Bumblebee. This wasn’t my favorite. I think I could have been a little more creative. But oh well.

Harry Potter! I was hesitant to do this one, but my kids are SO into Harry Potter right now. My 10-year-old is just about to finish the 5th book, and my 8-year-old just started the 3rd book. So of course when I asked them what starts with H, they both shouted in unison “Harry Potter!” So there you go. Harry in the shape of an H.

I is for

Icy Igloo.

J is for

Jump rope.

K is for

Karate!

L is for

Leopard. Why did my L cookie spread more than any of the others? That is the question of the day. And another question is, do you need a leopard print tutorial? Sweet Sugarbelle is your girl.

M is for

Mountains.

N is for

Numbers. My daughter was so bummed that I didn’t do her idea on this one. She wanted me to make it sparkly and have a price tag hanging off of it, so that it would be N is for “New”. I thought that was a really cute idea, I just didn’t know if I could pull it off. Sorry Kelly. I totally took the easy way out on this one.

O is for

Orange.

P is for

Purple Paisley. This is one I did because I’ve been wanting to mess around with the paisley pattern on a cookie. My kids looked at it and were like, “Huh?” I said “It’s Paisley! And it’s Purple!”. And they said “okaaaaaaaaaaaay”. But hey, now I know how to do paisley in frosting, which will come in handy for Father’s Day ties.

Q is for

Quilt! Super fun to do!

R is for

Rainbow. Awww.

S is for

Sssssssssssssssssnake.

T is for

Tiger. Another one that I wanted to do for selfish reasons. I’ve been wanting to learn zebra stripes and tiger stripes, which are very similar– The tiger stripes are just smaller and closer together. So this was good practice. If you’d like a tutorial on zebra stripes, Sugarbelle has a great one for that, too! I bet you can’t guess what’s coming up for the letter Z…

U is for

Up!

V is for

Vines and Violet.

W is for

Watermelon!

X is for

X-ray– if letters had bones.

Y is for

Yellow and Yo-Yo.

Z is for… you guessed it…

Zebra! (If you didn’t see the letter T for Tiger yet, I mentioned this tutorial for how to make zebra stripes. Check it out. She made it so easy!)

So here’s a question for you. If you had a set of alphabet cutters, what would you do with them? Answer that question in the comments, and you’ll be entered to win a set all your own. Enter by Midnight on Wednesday, Feb. 16, and I’ll choose one winner using random.org to win a set of 26 letter cookies:

So you can make all the letter cookies you want. You could practice your animal prints:

173 Responses to “A is for Alphabet *GIVEAWAY CLOSED*”

FANTABULOUS!!!! I don’t know if that’s a word or not, but it’s the only thing that befits a project like this!!!! Karen, this is unreal!!! Just when I thought…Oh, that’s my favorite….I scroll down and pick a new favorite….It’s too hard, to pick a favorite…I love ‘em all!!! So creative!! Kudos to your kids…..they always have the best of ideas!!

Awesome! Impressive and an inspiration. I think I would use the cookie cutters for poetry – maybe a cookie haiku but also for ornaments – salt dough decoration possibilities limitless – edible and non-edible art :-)

You are so amazing, Karen. Everyone of these cookies is a work of art. And you did them all in one afternoon?? Oh my…..that floors me. :) I love them.

If I had this set, I would definitely use them for the first initial of the birthday girl/boy or baby girl/boy to make a very special personalized cookie for them. :) Thanks for always writing such fun blog posts and offering such wonderful blog give-aways. :)))))))

Thank you so much for all your work you put into showing your ideas, tips and tricks. I have done lots of different things baking wise over the years…but seem to be coming back again and again to cookie decorating. Recently one of the teachers from my kids school asked me to teach them cookie decorating. So I held a class as a gift to them It ended up being 12 of the teachers. I used a lots of your ideas from your website, starting with the practice sheets. It was so much fun! We did it right before Valentines.

I’m just getting started in decorating, and I think these would be great! I could do my kids monograms, make personalized ones for each child when they come to a birthday party or class snack, they would be cute for a baby shower or a bridal shower with the new last initial. . . the possibilities are endless!

Oh my gosh…those are to cute for words!!! Plus that you did them in one afternoon. Just awesome! I’ve been dragging my feet to do some Mardi Gras cookies this week. The first thing I would do would be my kids names with these. Maybe try and include things they like on the letters.

Those cookies are amazingly cute! I’ve been wanting letter cutters for awhile now. Every year we make pancakes for my kids birthdays that spell out their name. Cutting them out would be so much easier! Of course, your tutorial would be absolutely adorable for a school class party. Hope I win!

I have to admit I would completely steal your idea and have my daughter come up with something representative of each letter. Sure she’s in 4th grade and has been familiar with letter for some time now, but it’s such a brain stretching creative activity.

Would also be fun to bake words and put them in my daughter’s lunch to unscramble. Then eat of course : )

Those cookies are amazing! It must have taken forever just to mix up all those colors let alone pipe all of those beautiful designs! I would probably use them for birthday cookies a lot, with the birthday kid’s initial or entire name spelled out.

My daughter is a kindergarten teacher, so I would help her teach letter sounds by making cookies for her students! The class would create a list of words that start with “A” and I would create those designs on “A” cookies. Or at the end of the school year, you could have an alphabet celebration party with all the letters (aka Karen’s style!)

Your cookies look very very lovely. They must be delicious!!!
I’d make my family and friends’ names and I’d give as a present for them… I think that my friend Gregoria would love me more then my daughter Eva!!!!
Lola

Wow Karen! You are absolutely amazing!!! These are so awesome!
I’m a teacher so clearly I would use these in my classroom. In Kindergarten or even my son’s 4K they do a letter of the week. I would totally make the class a cookie of the letter of the week. You are so creative! Love it!

LOVE LOVE LOVE your alphabet cookies!!! If I had an alphabet set, I would make up a couple alphabets to give to teachers at my sons’ schools and for Teacher Appreciation Week, Book Week, Dr. Seuss Day and more!

If I had this set I would probably never come out of the kitchen! I just love what you did with the whole alphabet..but the Paisley is just amazing! I have a friend who owns an at home daycare…I would love to gift her with cookies for each letter as she’s teaching it.

I am so completely in awe of your creativity on these! They are awesome!!! If I had the alphabet cutters, I would definitely be making my girls’ names. They are so into their names and letters and spelling (they are 3 and 16 months) and they would love this! The rainbow is my favorite. Too bad neither of their names have an R!

You are so creative and the cookies are just wonderful! If I had those cutters, I would use them to make special birthday cookies for my many co-workers and family just for starters. The possibilities are endless!

I LOVE the doughnut, orange, and watermelon! Those were my favorite. You really showed your talent on these alphabet cookies, Karen! If I got them, I’d probably try one or two of these “themes” (like the doughnuts!) and spell my kids’ names and they would love me forever!

Wow! This is sooooo cool. LOVE IT. So many different things you could do with them. My letter cutters are way too small for this. If I had these cutters, I’d love to try something like this. How many colors did you use? How long did this take?

My daughter is bowling in a state tournament and we are making cookie platters for the opposing teams. I think the letters would be great to spell out the names of each team, decorated in the school colors. The possibilities are endless.

OH MY! Your cookies are awesome!!
What I would like to do with them, if make (ok, try to make!) a set for each of my kiddos for their birthdays with letter representing things about them — character traits and their likes and dislikes!
That would be so fun. Thank you!

If I had this cutter set I would make BIG plans to do the whole alphabet, all the names in my family and maybe some special holiday ones. Then I would make my grandkids’ names and pretend I will find the time to do the rest….

OOOOOOH!!!Love, love, love. My daughter Ruby has her 3rd birthday coming up-Whoop! I would decorate them with her favorite things: B for book, C for cat, D for Daddy (might need a tutorial for effective bald guy decorating :O), F for funny faces, J for jelly beans, K for kisses, M for monkeys, S for swings, T for Tinkerbell and so much more!! I am so excited to make these for her! Your cookies are so inspiring. I am new to the cookie decorating world and it is bringing my family and myself lots of smiles :O)Thank you!

I like them a lot…especially the paisley and the watermelon. I just got my own set of letters recently as well and used the X’s and O’s for Valentine’s Day…very cute. Pictures will be posted soon at http://www.bakedperfectioncookies.com

Hmmm…maybe an Alphabet Party for my son’s 3rd bday. I could have some fun with that! Or kids birthday presents…spell out their name and give instead of buying gifts! I doubt they would care if it was cookies THIS cool! OK, I have a strange question. I just got done doing Valentine’s cookies for my daughter and that was only 3 colors. For this do you always have frosting in bags and ready to go or did you mix up a batch of frosting and just color it 20 different colors and have THAT many decorating bags, with tips (and some are thick for outlining and some are runny for flooding)? I am overwhelmed at how you managed the logistics of this one! Thanks!

I like them a lot…especially the paisley and the watermelon. I just got my own set of letters recently as well and used the X’s and O’s for Valentine’s Day…very cute. Pictures will be posted soon at http://www.bakedperfectioncookies.com.

Oh my gosh these were amazing! I found myself smiling and giggling at my computer as I scrolled down to each letter. LOVE THEM! Fantastic job Karen! You’re always so inspiring! These were seriously fun! Thanks for sharing your amazing creativity!

Oh, I’d love to use a set of these to make gifts for friends’ birthdays. Who wouldn’t love to get a set of decorated cookies that spelled out their name and were decorated with ideas specific to themselves (hobbies, favorite things, personal history, etc.)? It’s flexible enough to work for both men and women.

Wow! All of them are so wonderful! I’d have to say my favorites are the Paisley and the Watermelon. I think it would be fun to make for party favors for my kids’ birthdays. Using the first letter of their name and decorating the letter to match the theme. They’d be really cute to include in a baby shower bouquet by decorating “baby” in some fun prints and colors to match the theme and gender of the baby.

Fantastic work! I almost can’t wait until both of my kids are in school and I could spend my days decorating! I would like to use this set for birthday cookies, to spell out the recipient’s name, I think that would be very cute. But lots of other uses too!

Oh my!!! So amazing and so much fun. Some of mt favs—golf, mountain, and watermelon.
I can’t think what I’d do first—it would be a great way to teach my three year old his letters; he loves decorating cookies with me. It would also be fun to make the kids’ names.

Second, I have always seen the letters, but hated that they do not include cut-outs (like the center of “A” or the middle of “O”. I always thought that the cookie would stand out. However, in looking at your designs, I didn’t even notice that the cookie centers weren’t cut out! I realized it when you showed the cutters. You did a fantastic job and have turned me on to liking the alphabet cutters without the cutouts! :-)

Wow! This must have taken you ALL day. It would’ve taken me all WEEK! :) Super cute! I would use the set for a baby shower later this year for my friend who is going with an alphabet theme for her nursery.

OMG, they are so cute. They would be awesome for my dayhome. We bake at least once a week…what better way to add a little extra learning into baking time but singing our ABCs as we cut out cookies. They would love them, so would I ( I have a slight cookie cutter obsession)

What wonderful cookies and ideas! Love them! If I had a set of these cookies, everyone I know would get a memo of cookies whether it was their birthday or not!!!!!! It would be day after day of “cookie-speak” (I’m just loving learning to decorate cookies!)
Blessings, Donna B.

This post blew me away! I really liked each and every letter’s design! And the timing couldn’t be better, as I was just looking at finding an alphabet set for myself!
I would create a large back-to-school sheet cake, decorated as a blackboard, with the letters as illustrations for the alphabet.

These are so creative and must have taken you such a long time! I am very impressed :) I LOVE the quilt, what an awesome idea, I have to try that sometime! If I had Alphabet Cutters Id use them all the time, weddings, anniversaries, school projects…skys the limit!!

Love, love, love the alphabet cookies! I think my favorite is the paisley one. If I had a set of the cutters I would make cookies spelling out my daughter’s name for her birthday cake and decorate them with red zebra stripes.

I think that I would use them for making cookies to decorate cakes…besides my kids names, I think incorporating designs & words (things like shoes or sports) or even non-traditional celebrations. I also think it could be alot of fun in helping my daughter who is just learning to read/spell….and reward her with the finished products when the lesson is done :)

Karen,
As always–so clever and creative! That was a lot of work, too! If I had this set I would make cookies with my kids’ first initials decorated with their interests for their birthdays. But also, I would make cookies for my son’s Kindergarten class. Each week they focus on a different letter of the alphabet.

I would love a set of alphabet cookie cutters, I dont have any but would use them to spell names out when I make birthday cookies for my friends..Love your blog and your site!Krislauriecolucci@yahoo.com

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE what you did with your letter cookies!!! I thoroughly enjoyed looking at them and guessing what the letters were depicting before I looked at the answer. I only missed two (I thought E = eruption, and thought H = happy. ; )). If I win the cookie cutters, I will do the same thing with my younger children. I will let them help me decide what each letter should represent. I may even do this with the grandkids also. I think that your cookies in this post are a true work of art!

I love that you used your son’s drawings for some of the letters!! My favorite is the purple paisley! I would use the cookie cutters on days like today…my daughter had a preschool day with the letter “P”!! The “Purple Paisley” would have been “Perfect”!! =)

OMG, These are brilliant!!! I’ve been thinking about getting this set for a long time, and now I am inspired. Wouldn’t this be fun for a baby gift? I love your blog and all your helpful hints. I mostly decorate cookies, but just took the Wilton 1 course, to get more familiar with buttercream. The instructor asked why I was using plastic wrap for filling my pastry bags, so I showed her and she was thrilled. One week, I forgot my plastic, but EVERYONE else had some to share with me. LOL.

I would use them to make cookies for all the kiddos in the neighborhood to come over and have a little cookie party with my kids and have their name all spelled out with the cookie cutters! Each kid would have a different theme.

(Sorry if this is a duplicate… I couldn’t tell if that last one went through…)

Yes – I can’t believe, either, that you did all those cookies in one school day’s worth of time! How many batches of icing did you need to make? If I had those cookie cutters, I’d volunteer to make cookies for a spelling bee!

I would LOVE these cookie cutters. I would use them for birthday parties, birthday cookie pop arrangements , baby showers. So many uses for them. Thanks for all the ideas on decorating and your tutorials. You are so gifted.

Wow, this is really fun! My next project is for my nephew’s birthday in a few weeks – he will be 2 and I’ve been wanting a letter and a number set… so I guess I would be doing “C is for Carter” but I really love your post – reminds me of blocks my kids had when they were little. Thanks!

PS – I also had miserable results with cake pops about a year ago, and I’ll be trying your pb pops instead :)

I would be a sugar cookie personalizing fool! I would make sure each and every cookie tray would have either the name spelled out or the holiday spelled out… What you have done here was so much fun too look at, love how you and your kids came together for this project….and I bet they are absolutely delish! Thanks for sharing and all of your inspirational ideas!

Off the hook!!! So amazing! I have no letters because I am still trying to catch up with you girls on every other thing! I’m still getting supplies and such but after I baked for Valentines Day (for my family) everyone is waiting “impatiently” for what I will make next! The letters would be really cool to decorate…so many possibilities!!

The project is SUPERB (SOBERBIO in spanish)!!! Congrats for this extraordinary project!
I would write “THANK YOU” for all the ideas and tips you give us so clearly and in a nice way. Then I´d put them on a box and send them to you.
Thank you for your ideas that make us inspire.
(Sory for my poor english, I´m from Argentina).
Gabi

Oh my how cute are those? I just started doing cookies a month ago, and these cutters would be a great addition to my very limited cookie cutter collection. I also want to thank you for all the videos and tips….they really helped me out…one cookie five ways…..that was so helpful!

I love your decorated cookies….all of them. As a cookie decorating novice, I appreciate all your ideas, tutorials and especially the pictures. They say that copying is the best form of flattery, so please feel flattered. If I won your alphabet set, I would make cookies for my family birthdays spelling out their name and decorated with images of what makes them special to me.

Oh, these are so cute! I’m having a hard time choosing a favorite, they’re all adorable! But I’d like to re-create your “D for doughnut”, “M for mountain” and “R for rainbow” letter cookies… super cute! :)

How fun Karen! That is totally something I would love to do – just because I love details! I think I would have to have a letter party (just like I had a Valentine’s Party just so I could try out your YUMMY Gourmet cupcake ideas!!! Thanks a ton!)

Awesome – love every letter – you are an inspiration! I would make all kinds of cookie poetry but would look for outside uses too- salt dough , ceramics, so much potential for edible and non- edible art!

I would use the letters to spell the name of the holiday/event or the recipient of the cookies for a platter/box. Initials, words (LOVE,FREEDOM,FALL,SPRING,BRRRRR). I can see all sorts of fun things to do with them. I do love your creative alphabet. Making all the different colors of frosting would have done me in though.

Holy cow. I love these. Love them! You are so amazing. I don’t even have words. If I won letters from you…what would I do? Probably stroke them and rock back and forth talking to myself with joy. More practically, everyone gets their name for their birthday for the next forever.

These are absolutely adorable!! You really do have a talent.
I have been wanting to get some ABC cookies cutters, my plan was to use cookies as little gifts/favors for baby shower and nephew’s 3rd Bday. Also I am doing a blog for cancer and was thinking it would be nice to spell “HOPE” & “CURE” out and decorate them pretty for the cause.

Those are so cute! I think if I won the cookie cutter set I would have to try to do each letter like you did just for the fun on it! Maybe I would make my daughter and her friends names so they could decorate them and have some fun too =)

OMG your cookies are adorable, I haven’t seen cookies like these in a while, you are a great “cookie artist” I’m planning a baby shower, so I would use them to spell the name of the baby boy and as favors.

I would make cookies to spell out words for my nephew to help him with reading. Just a fun way to learn and if he would get the word right he could eat it! You are very creative love everything you do!

Wow Karen! You are amazing! I can’t even imagine the quantity of frosting you must have at your house and the rainbow of colors necessary to decorate each cookie so uniquely! Truly, I am in awe of your talent and creativity (and the creativity of your kids)! If I had alphabet cookie cutters I would….. bake and decorate a love note to my family!

I homeschool my 8 kiddos. 4 of my 8 are adopted through foster care and have many challenges. One of them, in particular, is a wonderful little girl (6) who was meth exposed before birth. She has lots of struggles learning, but luuuuuuuvs to help me in the kitchen. These are BRILLIANT! Thank you so much for the ideas — we will be doing these for school time!!!